Lot
6
Grace Wekesa (b. 1974)
Head of a Sleeper, 2012
Bronze with green-brown patina
30 × 44 × 24 cm · Edition 4 of 6
Estimate KES 1,200,000–1,800,000
Bidding
Sold
KES 1,650,000
Hammer price. Buyer's premium of 20% and VAT on the premium are added.
About the work
A head lying on its side, eyes closed, its patina running from green at the temple to brown at the jaw.
Condition
Excellent.
Provenance
Private collection, Nairobi.
The artist
Wekesa models heads in clay and casts them in bronze in small editions, finished with brown and green patinas that she builds up over weeks. The faces are elongated and calm, with closed eyes, as if listening or asleep. Her Listener series, begun in 2014, is her best known, and the heads are rarely offered for sale.
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